Oracle's plan to merge the Sun HotSpot Java Virtual Machine with the JRockit JVM is still evolving, but a single JVM based on both technologies is expected in 18 months to two years, an Oracle ...

The company Lightbend has announced a new major version of Akka. With this release, the JVM toolkit becomes a comprehensive platform for creating applications and running them on different cloud ...

Microsoft has announced the private preview of jaz, a new Java Virtual Machine (JVM) launcher tailored for cloud deployments on Azure. The tool aims to address long-standing challenges developers face ...

GUEST RESEARCH: Azul’s High Performance Java Platform Achieves Historic First with 10,000 Customer JVMs Collaborating and Sharing Performance Optimisations, Cutting Cloud Costs by 20%+ Azul, the only ...

The Java ecosystem supports a host of outstanding back-end frameworks, including many written for modern languages like Scala and Kotlin. Here's how seven top frameworks for Java and JVM languages ...

I have found the tools and utilities that come with the Sun-provided Java SDK (especially the monitoring and management tools) to be very useful in daily Java development. I have previously blogged on ...